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To: Mannie who wrote (4255)	6/18/2001 5:40:29 PM
From: Mannie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104182

Check out this guy..... His goal: The end of civilization Vandalism, freed mink are just steps Monday, June 18, 2001 By PAUL SHUKOVSKY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Seattle animal-rights activist Josh Harper sees "a spark of hope in every broken window, every torched police car and every mink running free as their hearts desire." For the 26-year-old anarchist, those acts are necessary to achieve his ultimate goal: "The complete collapse of industrial civilization." Harper hopes for a return to small communities of people producing only the food, clothing and shelter they need to survive. Under the threat of criminal contempt, Harper appeared in April before a federal grand jury in Portland investigating eco-terrorism. He said he told his interrogators nothing of value. "I took the Fifth," he said. FBI agents arrested him last fall. He spent three days in the federal detention center at SeaTac before being released on bail. It wasn't Harper's first stint behind bars. By his own estimate, he's been arrested at least a dozen times. Harper has tossed a lighted flare and smoke canister at Native American whalers, charged through a police line outside a conference of bio-medical researchers, and participated in dozens of demonstrations against the fur industry, factory farms and meat-processing plants. He considers himself a soldier, defending the Earth. "But I don't see it as a war environmentalists started," he said recently at a Capitol Hill café. "The war is a war on wilderness -- a war on wildlife." For 36 days in 1998, while suffering from testicular cancer, Harper went on a hunger strike in a Santa Ana, Calif., jail. He was being held for assaulting officers at a demonstration. The 6-foot-3 vegan shed a pound a day because he wouldn't eat the bologna sandwiches proffered by his jailers. "We see ourselves as trying to save the world and every being on it," said Harper, whose cancer is in remission. "It emboldens us to take extreme actions." Harper denies any involvement with the Animal Liberation Front or the Earth Liberation Front -- dubbed terrorist groups by the U.S. government. Yet he applauds ELF's recent arson attack on the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture. In war, Harper reasoned, there is collateral damage. These folks have been very active in the NW over the last few years......I wonder if these fellas have pondered the future of the animals they profess to love if there were to be a "total breakdown of the Industrial economy?"